XPost: alt.magick, alt.pagan.magick, alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: glass@panix.com   
      
   In article <4e9f4ed2$0$4469$e4fe514c@dreader18.news.xs4all.nl>,   
   Bassos   wrote:   
      
   >Without safety regulations, no clean workplace, no scientific approach   
   >to this alchemical process, yeah.   
      
   Overheard today around the home dye shop: "writing down color proportions   
   = not enough. It helps to write down how much water they were floating in,   
   too."   
      
   Part of the attraction to the work of "art" is of course its   
   irreproducibility. Mechanical reproduction replaces accident with   
   standardization -- with something like Six Sigma or ISO at the far end --   
   but there's the brewer again.   
      
   Notionally ye "alchemical" process is necessarily entirely bespoke, even   
   though it builds on the receipts scribbl'd by giants. But that takes us a   
   bit afield.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)